Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 187190
Pirut, yumex fail at "import gtk"
Last modified: 2013-03-13 00:50:16 EDT
Description of problem: yumex and pirut fail at "import gtk" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always (for me). See additional info. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: This system was upgraded via CD from fc4. Following the upgrade, pirut failed at, "import glx." I installed yumex as an alternative and go the same results (with some more detail): [root@mail lib]# yumex Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/yumex/yumexmain.py", line 24, in ? import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 38, in ? from _gtk import * ImportError: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden Note: I've updated everything (yum update) - I also tried uninstalling and re-installing many things - all to no avail. I found several websites reporting similar issues, none of the stated solutions worked. I'm guessing that some dependency wasn't installed. Perhaps there was something lying around from fc4 which compromised the upgrade. Please let me know what additional information I can provide. Thanks.
You probably have some packages not installed broken. First you should check yuor package versions: [maners@athlon64 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep pygtk pygtk2-libglade-2.8.4-1.1 pygtk2-2.8.4-1.1 pygtk2-devel-2.8.4-1.1 [maners@athlon64 ~]$ rpm -q gtk2 gtk2-2.8.15-1 [maners@athlon64 ~]$ rpm -q cairo cairo-1.0.4-1 If some version doesn't match you should try to yum update it. Otherwise try uninstall and then install again those packages and look for any scriptlet errors etc.
All packages were present. I uninstalled and re-installed. Following is the only error I could see: Running Transaction Installing: cairo ######################### [1/4] Installing: gtk2 ######################### [2/4] g_module_open() failed for /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: /usr/li b/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden [snip]
I found something related on google: http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2005/10/fc4-gtk-python-issue.html the svg_loader.so file comes from librsvg2 package. In FC5 its version should be 2.14.2-1. According to the various google results ( eg. http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-59407.html ) the error comes from freetype. My verions are as the following: [root@athlon64 maners]# rpm -qa | grep freetype freetype-2.1.10-5.2.1 freetype-devel-2.1.10-5.2.1 freetype-2.1.10-5.2.1
Ok - I think I found something... it'll take awile to fix it carefully (so as not to have to re-install everything). It looks like the upgrade-install left old freetype libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib. There is actually quite a bit of debris there... libraries last modified in 2003 not owned by any package. I'm going to clean up the directory & re-install everything which does have an "owned" package there. If this is the case, then this report should be re-directed at the installer for FC5 (and others?) for not cleaning up well. Then again, this could have been left over from other upgrades but just manifest now.
Yes - that was it. The issue is now resolved (for me), but the upgrade process should probably be enhanced to clean up /usr/X11R6/lib.